Wagner head says his forces are handing control of Bakhmut to Moscow
It comes days after Yevgeny Prigozhin said troops from the Russian private military contractor had captured the ruined city.
It comes days after Yevgeny Prigozhin said troops from the Russian private military contractor had captured the ruined city.
Yevgeny Prigozhin also said the Kremlin’s forces have killed civilians during the war.
Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said Russian troops shot down the drones overnight.
Ukrainian officials blamed the incident on Russian guerrilla groups bent on changes at the Kremlin.
Kyiv officials denied any link with the group and blamed the fighting on a revolt by disgruntled Russians against the Kremlin.
Raman Pratasevich made several confessional appearances on state television that critics claimed happened under duress.
Deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said that Ukrainian troops hold some areas in the city’s south-western outskirts.
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has warned the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is ‘extremely vulnerable’.
The fog of war made it impossible to confirm the situation on the ground in the invasion’s longest battle.
Mr Zelensky said at the G7 summit in Hiroshima ‘Bakhmut is only in our hearts’.
The eight-month battle for the city in eastern Ukraine is the longest and probably most bloody of the conflict in Ukraine.
This claim was contradicted by Ukrainian officials.
Tejay Fletcher, 35, founded the site which supplied criminals with tools to con victims out of £100 million.
Officials warned that some villages were still cut off because landslides had made roads impassable and phone lines had been severed.
Tejay Fletcher, 35, was revealed as the founder of the iSpoof.cc website when it was smashed last year in the UK’s biggest fraud sting.